Koushun Takami Quotes

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• Loving someone always requires you to not love others.

  Koushun Takami

  Loving Someone

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• You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course, this kind of meaninglessness might suit this crappy nation. But, you see, we still have emotions like joy and happiness, right? They may not mount to much. But they fill up our emptiness. That's the only explanation I have.

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  Nice, Clothes, Joy

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• I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it's like to be in love.

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  Falling In Love, Nice, Knowing

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• Takako looked into Hiroki's eyes and grinned. "You've become quie a stud." "And...you're the most stylin' girl in the world." Takako smiled faintly. She wanted to thank him, but she was out of breath. She just stared at Hiroki's eyes. She was grateful. At least she wasn't going to die alone. The last person to stay with her ended up being Hiroki. And she was grateful. She really was.

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  Girl, Grateful, Eye

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• To memorize something,it's best to write it down.

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  Writing

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• Now, once again, 2 students left. But of course they're a part of you now.

  Koushun Takami

  Students, Courses, Left

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• How do you know I didn't bring you out here to dispose of you in private?

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  Knows, Do You Know

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• Furthermore--though it was quite irrelevant now--he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than Toshinori's home in Shiroiwa-cho, mastered the violin at a level far superior to Toshinori's a long time ago--and then tossed his violin into the trash.

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  Home, Ideas, Long

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• But I'm willing to take a chance on believing there has to be a way. All I need is someone to believe with me.

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  Believe, Needs, Way

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• She looked up at the sky, now tinged with orange. "Please live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to music..." She stopped briefly. "Look at paintings, allow yourself to be moved. Laugh a lot, and at times, cry. And if you find a wonderful girl, then you go for her, and love her.

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  Girl, Thinking, Sky

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• Shogo looked at Shuya and Noriko. "The winner's forced to transfer to another school where he or she is ordered not to mention the game and is instructed instead to lead a normal life. That's all." Shuya felt his chest well up inside and his face froze. He stared at Shogo and realized that Noriko was holding her breath. Shogo said, "I was a student in Third Year Class C, Second District, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture." He added, "I survived the Program held in Hyogo Prefecture last year.

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  School, Class, Years

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• Nice jewelry and a boys corpse. Oh you're so pretty.

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  Nice, Boys, Jewelry

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• They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.

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  Believe, Together, Might

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• Kazuhiko could have taken his gun and aimed it at the person behind them. But Sakura wouldn't want that. What she wanted was to leave this world quietly before they got sucked into this horrible massacre. Nothing was more important to him than her. There was no room for compromise. If this were what her trembling soul wanted, then he would follow her. Had he been more eloquent he might have described his feelings as something like, "I'm going to die for her honor." Their two bodies danced in the air beyond the cliff, their hands still clasped together, the black sea under them.

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  Taken, Gun, Two

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• Hurry and you can have the big crybaby for first kill.

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  Firsts, Crybabies, Bigs

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• By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.

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  Age, May, Facts

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• There's no end to suspicion once you get going.

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  Ends, Suspicion

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• ‎"Someday I'm going to marry someone like my mom and I'll be smiling all the time the way my Mom and Dad are.

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  Mom, Dad, Way

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• Shinji slowly fell forward onto his face. Debris bounced up on impact. It took less than thirty seconds for the rest of his body to die. The memento of his beloved uncle--the earring worn by the woman he loved--was now stained with the blood running down Shinji's left ear, reflecting the glow from the red flames of the farm building. And so the boy known as the Third Man, Shinji Mimura, was dead.

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  Running, Uncles, Men

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• We're still on the run. That's for sure. Right on. This time we're on. And we won't stop till we win.

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  Running, Winning, Stills

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• Yes, just like those flowers. There's something strained, but there's beauty in that. Something like that

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  Flower

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• Silly boys. Did you think we were making a silent movie?

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  Silly, Boys, Thinking

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• Now there's the Niida we all know and loathe.

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  Knows, Loathe

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• On TV they keep their kids. Love them.

  Koushun Takami

  Kids, Tvs, Kids Love

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• Cowards can't be faulted for being shy. They can't be held responsible for anything.

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  Coward, Shy, Responsible

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